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Feb 23, 2023 · When you first picture someone experiencing suicidal thoughts, you might imagine them crying, lying in bed, alone or in pain. Suicidal ideation — and the depression that can accompany it — often makes people deeply sad or apathetic, which can lead to any number of these scenarios.
Jun 3, 2009 · What are you waking up for? It's so agonizing to wake up in the morning, why bother doing it? End it. Just end it." These words provide a window into the thoughts or critical inner voices that...
- “It feels like nothing matters anymore, not even you. You’ll start to feel like a burden, like you’re pulling everyone down with you and they’ll be better without you.”
- “You feel dead inside and you’re just a ghost living in a body you don’t recognize. You look in the mirror and you see a stranger. A pale, tired, miserable stranger that kind of looks like you.
- “It feels like you’re all alone and no matter what’s said to you, you feel like it’s not true or doesn’t matter. It feels like you just need to end it all because you’re so tired of fighting every single day.”
- “When at it’s worst, I feel like I’m drowning in the middle of an entire ocean, and ‘death’ is a floating raft. All I can do is choose to keep wading until I completely exhaust myself, or climb on.”
Nov 24, 2020 · Depression and feelings of deep inadequacy, yes. But suicide? Not that they knew of, not until the final weeks of his life.
- On Losing Her Husband to Suicide
- On The Isolation of Survivors
- On Her Life as A Survivor of Suicide
- On Advice to Those Affected by Suicide
My husband had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and he also had what we call a “moral injury,” which I think is really important when talking about veterans. The way I’ve heard it described is that it’s basically having performed acts during your time of service that were required by your service but that go against and violate your own moral ...
About a year and a half after he died I quit my job as a lawyer and began to do photography because I needed something to do for my own healing. What I experienced was profound isolation and that sense that you know, the world was out there, and everyone was moving on with their daily life, and I was on what I used to refer to as “planet my husband...
What I have come to discover is that it’s actually pretty common when you have a first-degree suicide loss like that to continue to have [suicidal] feelings yourself. I know what’s helped me is spending a lot of time particularly with my veteran friends who have been trained in peer support and suicide prevention. It’s so helpful to have someone wh...
We are very antiseptic in the way we think about death and grief, particularly the taboos around suicide. When someone says “You’re very young to be a widow, what happened,” I’m always honest. If he were around with what I know now, my message to him would have been, “You are loved unconditionally even if you never feel better than you do right now...
- Caroline Catlin
Sep 9, 2020 · Truth: That is false. Myth: There is nothing that you can do to help a person who is suicidal. Truth: Listening and offering emotional support can be very helpful for a suicidal person. Myth: If...
What are suicidal feelings? Suicide is the act of intentionally taking your own life. Suicidal feelings can mean having abstract thoughts about ending your life or feeling that people would be better off without you. Or it can mean thinking about methods of suicide or making clear plans to take your own life.
